Actualités Why Is Europe Keeping Its Schools Open, Despite New Lockdowns? Europe’s latest wave of restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus have largely avoided closing schools. We take a look at why and how they are being kept open.
Blog Back-to-school, but not back to normal: Lessons from Aga Khan's field programs With support from the Government of Canada, Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and our partners have spent the past five months planning and implementing a COVID-19 response plan geared towards helping children in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya continue learning at home during school closures.
Ressource TEAM Girl Malawi Learning Paper: Reaching the most marganalised during COVID-19 Transformational Empowerment for Marginalised Adolescent Girls in Malawi (TEAM Girl Malawi) aims to significantly improve learning and life chances for the most marginalised young people.
Ressource Creativity Spotlight: Five Innovation Responses to COVID-19 This supplementary mini-report presents case studies from surveys and interviews on how five of the selected innovators have responded to COVID-19 as a result of widespread school closures. The purpose is to illuminate how a variety of innovations have coped with the challenges they faced (and continue to face), and shed light on the changes/learnings since.
Ressource Best Practices on Effective SEL/Soft Skills Interventions in Distance Learning The purpose of this review is to provide evidence on effective, equitable, and inclusive SEL practices that can be delivered via distance learning modalities in USAID-recipient countries. The scope of this review includes formal and non-formal basic, secondary and higher education programs, as well as workforce development programs. Researchers analyzed documents and interviewed key informants from 22 programs offering SEL using distance learning modalities.
Ressource Averting an Education Catastrophe for the World's Children Education systems were already in crisis even before the pandemic and are now facing the likelihood of drastic budget cuts. If governments and development partners do not act immediately, this crisis could turn into a catastrophe from which millions of children may never recover.
Ressource Training Package for Primary School Teachers in Crisis Contexts This ½-day training (3.5 hours) is designed to build basic competencies around psychosocial support (PSS) and well-being for teachers working in crisis and conflict-affected contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ressource COVID-19 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools This document presents the results of a survey assessing the WASH readiness of schools in UNHCR- supported refugee camps and refugee settlements. UNHCR and partners are using the results to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) COVID-19 mitigation measures in schools and design targeted improvements to WASH facilities to allow for safe operation of schools.
Ressource Education on Hold: A generation of children in Latin and the Caribbean are missing out on school because of COVID-19 More than seven months into the pandemic, COVID-19 is putting education on hold for more than 137 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is according to a new UNICEF report about the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on education.
